I know a lot of people run dedicated 'Indigo' machines, but Indigo runs on my main Mac. With each year, things get slower and slower, and it's clearly time for an upgrade. (the machine is a 2012 21.5" iMac, 2.9 GHz Quad-core, 8 MB ram. I also drive an old external cinema display on it). I think Indigo is the least of my issues. The computer runs (at all times) Indigo, Mail, iTunes, iMessage, iCal, Address Book and WeatherSnoop and then other applications as I use them. Safari is just a dog on this computer. Excel takes forever and a day to launch. And I basically have to psyche myself up to start Parallels when I need to do something on Windows. I have a separate, even older iMac handling SecuritySpy (which I would transition to this iMac if I can retire it.)
I'm kind of done with iMacs. I don't like being pinned into the screen they want my to have, and I'm basically addicted to multiple displays at this time. We had some spare screens at work, so I clearly just want to move to a Mac Mini or something and move along. Apple's choices are just pretty terrible at this point. I mean, if I don't want to buy a Mac with a built-in Screen, I'm either looking at a Mac Mini last updated in 2014 (that honestly looks like it wouldn't even be much faster than my current iMac - at least by perusing Geekbench scores) or I'm looking at a $3000+ Mac Pro (which is just unreasonable overkill).
Any ideas here? (I'm not sure there are any. Maybe I just wanted to rant.) Maybe these old Mac Minis are faster than I (or geekbench scores) give them credit for?
I don't expect anyone here to have any insight on when new Mac Mini's might come around (seems like we'll just wait forever on that).